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Originally Posted by nightstalker
Did you get the mount finished for your binocs rob ?  |
No hadn't had much chance with the weather being the way it has. The shed
isn't to weather resistant yet
. But in the last week or so I did cut some
plastic milk bottle washers for the yoke end (where the bino's are) which has
made the action a lot smoother and easier, a one handed operation. I've
started to really enjoy my 20x80's now that they are mounted. There is still
a couple of things that need to be done before I can say it's completed. But
now I'm looking into a motorised bino chair
. I kinda like the idea of a
turret chair controlled by joy stick, I have been putting down some ideas.
I installed a sling for the mirror on the 8". The mirror had a bit of movement
there between the horizon and zenith, now there is zero movement. And I
finally screwed the truss connectors to the mirror box.
I cool thing is I've been able to get back into observing, had a bit of a spell
while I was building the 8". And because of my crook neck I couldn't use the
bino's for extended periods. The shakey view is now down to pretty much
zero. I'm looking forward to combing the coma-virgo cluster with them.
Last night was some of the best seeing I've had out here for a long time!!
Then it started to cloud out around 11:30pm : ( But I did see Venus
and Jupiter in the East before day break this morning.
regards,CS